Riddle Time

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You throw away the outside and cook the inside, then you eat the outside and throw away in inside.

What did you just eat?

Answer will be posted at 8:00 p.m. central time.

Dear Diary

Thursday, June 11, 2009
10:00 p.m.

Dear Diary,

Karissa left today for California to see her boyfriend. I am so thankful that his parents invited her along. Because at 17 I wouldn't let her go out alone.

Katie is at cheer camp and will be back tomorrow afternoon. What will we do with no kids tonight.....anything we want to.

After deciding we didn't want to cook, we went out to KFC, then we took Jake to the lake.

Sorry the pictures didn't turn out too well, it was pretty cloudy.

He loves going bye-bye, we open the back door, he jumps in and sits like a person.


He wasn't too interested in the water until he saw these guys.








...but once we let him get in the water he just wasn't too sure of it.....







so he decided to watch from afar.








After the lake we went back home, did a few things around the house and went to bed early. After last weekend if feels good not to have much to do.

A night at the ball park

Deidra over at Jumping Tandem talked about Haymarket Park home of the Saltdogs, Lincoln's semi-pro baseball team. I can't say that I'm a die hard baseball fan but when the weather is good I love going to the ball park, eating hot dogs, and soaking in the atmosphere.

What Deidra and I didn't know last night was that we were both at the game. While she was enjoying the game and eating hot dogs with H, Karissa and I were here:

One of our cheerleading fundraisers is selling dippin' dots at Haymarket Park. It's not big money but it does help pay for the uniform and other expenses that comes with cheerleading.

Working dippin' dots is a two man job and 1/2 my team was at cheer camp in Kansas. So since Karissa would fit into Katie's shirt better then my husband I asked her to help out. Doesn't she look excited.


Even though she couldn't wait until the top of the 8th (that's when we closed the stand) I enjoyed myself. I like being outside and meeting all the people, just wish I would have run in to Deidra.

The Party's Over

The house is quiet, calm and cleaned up. I am more tired then should be legally allowed. My feet hurt as well as the rest of the joints in my body. I am watching tv and listening to my husband making his lunch for tomorrow, tomorrow we go back to our normal routine. The breeze from the ceiling fan feels great, God blessed me today with an open afternoon/evening to just chill out and nap off and on. You now what.....I would do it all over in a heart beat.

My first born has graduated from high school this weekend. Where has the time gone? The time of pig tales, snuggles, and bed time stories. When she was little everyone told us to enjoy those times because they will go by quickly. As a strung out parent of a baby, toddler, teen.....you think "yeah right", but it is so true. (((Hug))) those babies because all too soon they are going to walk across that stage into a new chapter of their life. A chapter of experiencing independence and making decisions on their own (some good, some not so good). A chapter where the parents are not as actively involved in those decisions they make. A chapter of letting them go to develop into the person God wants them to be.

Well Karissa, the party may be over but the journey is just beginning. I love you, and am so proud of what you have accomplished. As this chapter of your life comes to a close a new chapter is opening up wide. God has great plans for you and with His help you can do anything. Remember, God never promised us life would be easy, some days will be very challenging. But during those challenging times remember the following verse, it has carried me through a lot of tuff times, times I just didn't understand what was going on around me.

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

Live life to it's fullest, follow your dreams, thank God and count your blessings everyday.

Love Mom.

Getting ready for graduation

It has been absolutely crazy around here the past two weeks getting ready for my oldest daughter's graduation; concerts, banquets, finals, and planning for the open house. I really should be heading off to bed - busy day tomorrow, but I wanted to touch base so you didn't think I fell off the face of the earth.

I have been working on a picture slide show for dd17. Think I bit off more then I could chew with this project. I am sure I have logged at least 50+ hours. When I first put the pictures in the movie program I had 2150 (about 3 hours of video).....if I only had a penny for each picture I took through out her life so far. Anyway, I got the video down to 1:23. When I played it back in dvd format I realized that some of the songs didn't line up the way I'd planned and I had double pictures. The perfectionist side of me wanted to redo the aligning of the songs with the pictures but I know that would take way too much time. What should I except working with so many pictures, what a lesson I learned - I'll start on dd15's video a whole lot sooner.

God has been so faithful through this whole journey, with him what seemed impossible became possible. I think I may have stated that in my last post but it's worth repeating. The video did not turn out as I had envisioned but it did turn out as God envisioned it. Every thing is starting to fall in place, (it should we only have one more day to prepare.) It's time to tie up the lose ends and realize that we won't get everything done we had planned, and that's ok. It's time to sit back and enjoy this chapter in our daughter's life, the close of one and the opening of another.

The entire family has been helping to get ready for the wonderful celebration, as well has some special friends. I thank you for relieving some of the stress.

My H went grocery shopping for me (bless his soul). He had to call a couple of times from the store but hey that's what we have cell phones for.

And, dd15 decorated her car:
That's been my life in a nut shell for the last few weeks. I will post pictures of the graduation later. Now, time to go to bed.

Sheryl

P.S. I am not a late night person and it is past midnight as I wrap this up. I appologize for any errors you may find in this post.